A man convicted as an accomplice in the 2004 killings of three
police officers in
Alabama who were shot by another man was executed Thursday evening.
Inmate Nathaniel Woods, 43, was pronounced dead at 9:01 p.m. CST Thursday following a lethal injection at the state
prison in Atmore, authorities said.
Alabama's first execution of the year came after a last minute bid to stop it, that included support from the son of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., and others who argued it was unfair to execute a man who didn't pull the trigger in the slaying.